SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX

Table of Contents

Overview

This article explains how to install and configure the SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX. The SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX collects performance, topology, and capacity data from your VPLEX systems and displays the data in easy-to-use reports within
ViPR SRM. With this SolutionPack, you can unify your view of multiple VPLEX systems, including physical storage to virtual storage relationships. Capacity reports, such as Thick, Thin, Allocated and Not Allocated, help you to improve the availability of business critical applications and services by ensuring that those applications have the storage resources they need to operate effectively.

Installing the
SolutionPack

Before you begin

When upgrading from
ViPR SRM 3.0 to
ViPR SRM 3.5, the schema for the
SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX changes and therefore historical data will no longer be available on the reports.

Before installing confirm that the VPLEX model is supported.

ViPR SRM core modules must be up-to-date in all servers because not all module dependencies are validated during the
SolutionPack installation or update process.

Check that a sink file is listed for each of the directors on the cluster.

If the sink file is not listed for a director, check that the clusters and their associated directors are operating correctly. If the monitors are not created the
SolutionPack can still be installed, but the performance data will be missing for the corresponding directors. For instance, if cluster-2 is down then you could still install the
SolutionPack but it will not collect any performance data for directors on that cluster.

While installing the
SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX, ensure that cluster 1 IP and serial number are not interchanged with the cluster 2 IP and Serial Number.

Procedure

Log in.

Click
Administration.

Click
Centralized Management.

Click
SolutionPacks.

Select
SolutionPack Center.

Navigate to
SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX in the Storage section.

Select the
SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX in the
Browse and Install SolutionPacks screen.

Click
Install.

The steps below assume a typical four VM deployment.

Enter an instance name.

In the
Data Collection field, select the Collector host.

In the
Reports field, select the Front End host.

Click
Next.

In the
Data collection window, select a value for
Data Collection.

If you select
Add a new data collection, type information about the data collection. In
Hostname or IP address to send data, use
localhost on port 2020, which is the Collector host where the Load Balancer Connector is installed.

Leave
Enable alerting on data collected checked.

Select a value for
Alerting on data collection.

If you select
Add a new Alerting on data collection, type information about the alerting configuration. In
Alerting Backend the hostname or IP address, select the Primary Backend host.

Leave
Enable Topology Backend on data collected checked.

Select a value for
Topology Service.

If you select
Add a new Topology Service, type information about topology queries.

In the
Topology Service hostname or IP address field, select the Primary Backend host.

Select a value for
Web-Service Gateway.

If you select
Add new gateway, type information about the gateway.

In the
VPLEX section, provide the cluster host and authentication details for your VPLEX system.

The default username for the VPLEX is
service and the default password is
Mi@Dim7T.

It is important to enter the cluster information correctly, clusters are mapped to their correct number. Interchanging cluster IPs and SN results in a failure to collect performance data.

Click
Next.

In the
Administration Web-Service Instance
field, select Default.

Click
Install.

The SolutionPack installation begins. It will take approximately take three hours for data to start appearing on reports.

Click
Ok once installation is complete.

After you finish

Check that
SolutionPack for EMC VPLEX has been able to successfully create virtual volume monitors:

Login to the SRM collector host, where VPLEX collection block has been installed and navigate to the folder
/opt/APG/Collecting/Stream-Collector/emc-vplex/w4n_vplex/<VPLEX-cluster1_IP-Cluster2_IP>/virt-volumes on the collector appliance.

The equivalent Windows location is
C:\Program Files\APG\Collecting\Stream-Collector\emc-vplex\w4n_vplex\<VPLEX-cluster1_IP-Cluster2_IP>\virt-volumes . Check to see if one log file per director has been created. The file will be deleted after it is parsed.

To ensure that virtual volume performance monitors are created, you can run the following command from the management server where these monitors were created: ll /monitoring/directors/*/*/*PERPETUAL*/*/file

This command should list a file for each of the director (including directors on both cluster-1 and cluster-2).